A group of state lawmakers are asking for a state audit of the controversial public-private deal reached to widen and collect tolls on U.S. 36 between Denver and Boulder.The request was made Tuesday by Rep. Mike Foote, a Lafayette Democrat, and 14 other state legislators in a letter to the Legislative Audit Committee and State Auditor Dianne Ray. Foote said the audit was ...

What will it change? Nothing. CDOT has plans for multiple P3 projects now that this one has gone through. Before long they will become the de facto form of construction for all major highway expansions in the state. You won't be able to go anywhere without seeing privatized toll lanes.

nealh wrote:What will it change? Nothing. CDOT has plans for multiple P3 projects now that this one has gone through. Before long they will become the de facto form of construction for all major highway expansions in the state. You won't be able to go anywhere without seeing privatized toll lanes.

This kind of "Public Private Partnership" isn't anything contained within CDOT either - it's across all State Agencies.

OIT is probably the worst. The blatant attempts to marginalize existing employees while transferring responsibilities to OUT OF STATE workers is ongoing.

HOW does that help Colorado? To move our State government jobs to people and organizations outside of the state? As is the case in this article/situation.

Well - beyond allowing the bureaucrats & politicians a mechanism to launder taxpayer's dollars to individuals?

TrafficCone wrote:I guess I am the only one who applauds this toll road - as every day it will remind Boulder commuters that they got the government they voted for.

Being spiteful isn't going to help the community, even if that community was mislead into voting in bad leadership. If anything, we're all guilty of that.

Besides Boulder isn't CDOT - a Statewide Agency that's built all the roads & bridges already but somehow can't figure out this straight & flat stretch of road that hauls a ton of traffic between Bldr & Dnvr. It's so obviously a ploy to burden those commuters with a new, unavoidable "Tax" they're calling a "toll".

It's exactly what all the other posts here have described. Out of State "interests" taking money from our citizens. Exactly what our government should be eliminating with internal capability instead of the opposite.